Last night marked an epic moment for the Harlem Shake, when two viral filmmakers shot a massive version of the Internet meme in Times Square. By spreading the word through Reddit, other websites, and social media, the duo were able to get nearly 300 people to converge on the area a little after 7:30PM. After […]
The Theremin is best known as either: a) the instrument behind the crazy wooshing sound at the end of “Good Vibrations,” b) the sound of countless vintage horror and sci-fi films, or c) it’s not known at all. But Thomas Grillo is keeping true to the instrument’s heritage, invoking OG virtuoso Clara Rockmore and producing […]
Blood. Bunnies. Strippers. Violence. Diamonds. Sexy nacho chips. NSFW. “If you prefer GIFS over Nips,” Los Angeles musician and performance artist Ashley “Actually” Huizenga says, “here is the YouTube, Rated PG13 version!” So here’s what might happen. First you’ll get entranced by those strange videos that compliment Actually’s scintillating pop. You may make a comparison to Jeff Koons’ ex-wife Ilona […]
Photographer John Schnabel took these eerie stills using means that might have landed him in jail or an interrogation room today: by standing at the end of a runway with a telephoto lens, snapping pictures without anyone’s permission. The work was done in the mid-90s, but is now being released in a book entitled Passengers. “It was […]
A group of black and hispanic supervisors has filed a class-action lawsuit against the city’s Department of Sanitation, alleging a culture that denies promotions to people of color. The suit cites some striking statistics: though 55 percent of Sanitation employees are black or hispanic, just three to five percent of managers are of color.”We still […]
Ron, Flatiron District. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
The 23rd Street station looks a bit like a trippy light show from the front of an arriving C train. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]
If you’re a fan of the internet’s newest favorite meme and have been longing to participate, consider heading to Times Square tonight, where a Harlem Shake of epic proportions will be going down. Spotted on Reddit, the Harlem Shake shoot has 570 people attending according to Facebook, with an additional 165 “maybes,” at the time […]
On Thursday, AMC will unveil its newest reality series, Immortalized. It’s a show about about taxidermy and the first episode will star local Brooklyn hero, Takeshi Yamada. We first encountered Dr. Yamada this past summer while filming the Coney Island edition of ANIMAL’s neighborhood spotlight series, “What Are You Doing Tonight?”. The dapperly dressed gentleman […]
What would you pay for your very own custom drone, for all you surveillance and/or murderous needs? Thanks to Mr. Drones, a new project from Drones of New York artist Rajeev Basu, you can have an (imaginary) UAV for the low, low price of $24,999! To highlight the fact that drones will be cleared for […]
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